Here is the clip of the meteorite crashing into the mountain that I plan to use in my film. I drew the frames in Paint Tool SAI and imported them into Pencil to animate them.

It took me a few attempts to get the meteorite to look convincing. Here are some of my first tries:

The first attempt I used too many frames and didn't take enough care to align them properly. The second was better but still too many frames to make it look real. The final version I only used 5 frames of the meteor in the sky as opposed to the 20ish i used in the first version.

If I have time I would like to do something with the lighting in this scene to make it a little less static, maybe i can try animating the clouds/mist too.

Here are some of the clips I used as references:

Scene background

completed storyboard

Test sequence for the first scene of my animation

(meteorite falling from space)

5 frames at 12fps looped for 5 seconds

shaniqua the shark

storyboard for 'when balls go bad' animation

so this is the start of my ideas for this assignment - my 'ball' starts out as a meteorite that falls to earth into the side of a mountain. It rolls out of its crater and snowballs down the mountain, getting bigger as it picks up the snow. Eventually it reaches a lake/sea and falls in, the snow melting off. it gets eaten by a fish, which is subsequently eaten by a larger fish and  in turn is eaten by a shark. i'm not sure how many seconds this sequence will take so i may have to end it at this point, however depending on how it goes i would like to have some way to get the ball back out of the fish and have it come to a final resting place.

character sheet